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Census of Population and Housing [United States], 1970 Public Use Sample: Modified 1/1000 5% State Samples (ICPSR 7922)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection consists of modified records from
CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE
SAMPLES (ICPSR 0018). The original records consisted of 120-character
household records and 120-character person records, whereas the new
modified records are rectangular (each person record is combined with
the corresponding household record) with a length of 188, after the
deletion of some items. Additional information was added to the data
records, including typical educational requirement for current
occupation, occupational prestige score, and group identification
code. This version also differs from the original public use
census samples in other ways: all ages for all respondents were
included, 1 percent of the majority from each 1970 file was included,
10 percent of the Black population in each file was included, and
Mexican Americans outside the five southwestern states of Arizona,
California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas were included, but were
identified as "other Hispanics." Other variables provide information
on the housing unit, such as occupancy and vacancy status of house,
tenure, value of property, commercial use, rent, ratio of property
value to family income, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage
disposal, complete kitchen facilities, flush toilet, water, and
telephone. Data are also provided on household characteristics such as
the size of family, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers, and
household relationships. Other demographic variables specify age, sex,
place of birth, income, marital status, race, citizenship, and ratio of
family income to poverty cutoff level. This collection was made available
by the National Chicano Research Network of the Institute for Social
Research, University of Michigan. See the related collections, CENSUS OF
POPULATION AND HOUSING [UNITED STATES], 1970 PUBLIC USE SAMPLE: MODIFIED
1/1000 15% STATE SAMPLES (ICPSR 7923), and CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING
[UNITED STATES], 1970 PUBLIC USE SAMPLE: MERGED FAMILY HOUSEHOLD DATA RECORDS
FOR 42 SMSAS (ICPSR 7759).

This data collection consists of modified records from
CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE
SAMPLES (ICPSR 0018). The original records consisted of 120-character
household records and 120-character person records, whereas the new
modified records are rectangular (each person record is combined with
the corresponding household record) with a length of 188, after the
deletion of some items. Additional information was added to the data
records, including typical educational requirement for current
occupation, occupational prestige score, and group identification
code. This version also differs from the original public use
census samples in other ways: all ages for all respondents were
included, 1 percent of the majority from each 1970 file was included,
10 percent of the Black population in each file was included, and
Mexican Americans outside the five southwestern states of Arizona,
California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas were included, but were
identified as "other Hispanics." Other variables provide information
on the housing unit, such as occupancy and vacancy status of house,
tenure, value of property, commercial use, rent, ratio of property
value to family income, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage
disposal, complete kitchen facilities, flush toilet, water, and
telephone. Data are also provided on household characteristics such as
the size of family, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers, and
household relationships. Other demographic variables specify age, sex,
place of birth, income, marital status, race, citizenship, and ratio of
family income to poverty cutoff level. This collection was made available
by the National Chicano Research Network of the Institute for Social
Research, University of Michigan. See the related collections, CENSUS OF
POPULATION AND HOUSING [UNITED STATES], 1970 PUBLIC USE SAMPLE: MODIFIED
1/1000 15% STATE SAMPLES (ICPSR 7923), and CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING
[UNITED STATES], 1970 PUBLIC USE SAMPLE: MERGED FAMILY HOUSEHOLD DATA RECORDS
FOR 42 SMSAS (ICPSR 7759).

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing [United States], 1970 Public Use Sample: Modified 1/1000 5% State Samples . ICPSR07922-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-08-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07922.v2

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Methodology

Data Source:

CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970: PUBLIC USE
SAMPLES (ICPSR 0018)

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-28

Version History:

2009-08-12 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.